State News

A crew of 70 people will perform an elaborate outdoor nativity play in eastern Iowa this weekend. Julia Bean owns the farm near the small community of Scotch Grove where everything’s staged. She says in […]

Cedar Falls police are investigating a Wednesday night shooting that left one person dead. The shooting occurred in a downtown apartment that’s above a restaurant on Main Street. According to police, officers found a male […]

Andrew Yang has spent more days campaigning in New Hampshire than any other Democratic presidential candidate. Next week, Yang will shift his travel time to Iowa, for a five-day bus tour here. Yang, a New […]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a tissue sample from a road killed deer collected on the south side of Sioux City shows a high likelihood that the deer was infected with Chronic Wasting […]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden grew emotional Wednesday as he told a crowd in Ames the Iowa Caucuses will be held on what would have been his son Beau’s 51st birthday. On occasion, Biden said […]

The Kossuth County Sheriff’s Department is confirming an employee of a bank in Lu Verne was shot and killed Wednesday. The sheriff’s department says deputies were called to the Security State Bank in Lu Verne […]

A northeast Iowa man is in custody after a three state chase Monday night. It ended after deputies from Iowa followed the vehicle driven by 22-year-old Adam Reinert into Illinois, where it crashed into a […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden today said he’s worried about the future of NATO, the alliance western countries formed after World War II to counter Russian aggression in Europe. President Trump has accused other allies […]

The Kossuth County Sheriff’s Department says a woman died in a shooting in Lu Verne earlier this morning. The Sheriff’s Department says a call came in about a possible shooting in Lu Verne around 8:40 […]

A Cedar Rapids Kennedy social studies teacher was named as Iowa’s Teacher of the Year today. George Anderson has taught for 13 years, and in a video from the Department of Education, says his military […]

University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld laid out a few more details Tuesday on the proposal to create a public-private partnership to run the school’s utility system. Harreld says the private company would give the […]

Iowa’s Secretary of State says four Iowa high schools have already qualified for a new award for getting eligible students registered to vote. A new state law lets 17-year-olds register to vote if they will […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is breaking from predecessor and mentor Terry Branstad’s practice of having state agency directors present their spending outlines for the next budgeting year in a public forum. Reynolds is meeting privately with […]

Voters in Ames made history in their municipal election yesterday. Twenty-year-old Iowa State University student Rachel Junck, an Ames native, was elected to a seat on the Ames City Council. She’s the youngest woman ever […]

Many thousands of deer hunters will be combing Iowa’s fields and forests this weekend as the first of two shotgun seasons will open Saturday. Tyler Harms, a wildlife biometrician with the Iowa Department of Natural […]

A judge gave the former CEO of the Regional Medical Center in Manchester a suspended 10-year prison sentence Tuesday. Lon Butikofer pleaded guilty to first-degree theft in October after he was arrested along with former […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says she’s disappointed a federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Iowa law that significantly boosted the penalty for trespassing on a farm. “We’re going to continue to work with the Iowa […]

Another candidate has dropped out of the Democratic presidential race. California Senator Kamala Harris indicated in an email message that she does not have the financial resources to continue. Harris opened 17 campaign offices around […]

State officials notified 22 applicants yesterday that they’re getting state grants for programs that will give up to a thousand Iowans new job skills. A few of the winning applicants drove to Des Moines today […]

The Iowa Farm Bureau opened it annual meeting today in Des Moines. IFB president Craig Hill, says farmers are looking forward to turning the page on 2019. “We’ve had a difficult year. One, we’ve had […]